Staline #[nn]

Part of Actes Sud Junior's "T'étais qui, toi ?" series, this 2010 French graphic work by Irène Cohen-Janca and Guillaume Long takes on one of history's most formidable and feared figures: Stalin. The cover presents a striking image — a golden statue of a child triumphantly raising a hammer and sickle, draped in a red sash, standing atop a pedestal, with scattered flowers at its base — a quietly unsettling tableau that speaks to the cult of personality surrounding the Soviet dictator. It's a thoughtful, visually inventive approach to bringing difficult history to younger readers.